by Andrew Stolbach I. Depolarization Medicine should center on the patient, so I start this story with an anonymous person dropping dead.1 Perhaps this person first heard about the medication from a friend who raved about his new allergy pill. Then, the day of a routine doctor’s appointment, our patient saw an advertisement for […]

by Meghan Spyres Unless you suffer the over appreciated and never-ending summer of southern California, the warm weather season is winding down and fall is settling in. Though many will lament the end of iced coffees, sunny beaches, and carefree summer attire, for many toxicologists, we will quietly lament the end of snake season. Perhaps […]

by Chris Holstege Early in my career, I received a call from my emergency department (ED) that a local pest remover had an M44 cyanide device discharge in his face. He was hyperventilating while insufflating amyl nitrite. I began to look further into it and I was rather stunned at the number of markedly toxic […]

by Meghan Spyres When someone asks me ‘why toxicology?’, I don’t think of the chance to use colorful antidotes like hydroxocobalamin for cyanide or Prussian blue for thallium toxicity. It’s not even the chance to manage a blue ringed octopus envenomation. Exotic cases are exciting, but for most of us, we choose […]

Continuous Methylene Blue Infusions for Treating Recurrent Methemoglobinemia by Steve Curry Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix A 2012 report out of Oregon serves as one of many examples reminding us that some serious cases of methemoglobinemia require more than a single injection of methylene blue in […]